Dear Heloise: A friend of my mother decided to downsize to a townhome after living in her large family home for years. She decided the things that she wanted to take with her, then hired an estate sale company so as not to deal with the things that she had amassed and no longer needed over the years. After the sale was over, she called a local charity to come pick up what wasn’t sold. — Eliza Jones, in Lakewood, California

CLEANING THERMOSES

Dear Heloise: The bottom of my stainless steel coffee thermos was getting yucky. I filled the thermos halfway with water, then put one denture cleaning tablet in it. I left it standing for several hours, then shook it and rinsed it well; it was so clean! — Carolyn S. Johnson, via email

CAT LITTER BOX ODOR

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